R Observatory: Metrics for officedown version 0.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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officedown

0.4.3

Enhanced 'R Markdown' Format for 'Word' and 'PowerPoint'

3packages dependsuggested by 4

109.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

10/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David GohelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Institut für Qualitätssicherung und Transparenz im Gesundheitswesen

Allows production of 'Microsoft' corporate documents from 'R Markdown' by reusing formatting defined in 'Microsoft Word' documents. You can reuse table styles, list styles but also add column sections, landscape oriented pages. Table and image captions as well as cross-references are transformed into 'Microsoft Word' fields, allowing documents edition and merging without issue with references; the syntax conforms to the 'bookdown' cross-reference definition. Objects generated by the 'officer' package are also supported in the 'knitr' chunks. 'Microsoft PowerPoint' presentations also benefit from this as well as the ability to produce editable vector graphics in 'PowerPoint' and also to define placeholder where content is to be added.

Changes in 0.4.3

Issues

hook_plot_officedown.Rd has no usage, and a fix was needed to avoid a NOTE

(seen in CRAN Debian check).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("officedown", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("davidgohel/officedown")

Development version from davidgohel/officedown. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-officedown

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-officedown

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-officedown

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

3ERROR10OK

Check messages

ERRORtestsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-patched-linux-x86_64

Running ‘testthat.R’ [10s/14s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > # This file is part of the standard setup for testthat.
  > # It is recommended that you do not modify it.
  > #
  > # Where should you do additional test configuration?
  > # Learn more about the roles of various files in:
  > # * https://r-pkgs.org/tests.html
  > # * https://testthat.r-lib.org/reference/test_package.html#special-files
  > 
  > library(testthat)
  > library(officedown)
  > 
  > test_check("officedown")
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-21.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-22.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-23.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-24.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-25.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-26.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-41.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-50.R
  [ FAIL 8 | WARN 0 | SKIP 3 | PASS 14 ]
  
  ══ Skipped tests (3) ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
  • On CRAN (1): 'tes
...[truncated]...
─────────────────────────
  Expected `xml_attr(li4, "val")` to equal "2".
  Differences:
  `actual`:   NA 
  `expected`: "2"
  
  ── Failure ('test-rdocx-lists.R:25:3'): reading lists ──────────────────────────
  Expected `xml_attr(li5, "val")` to equal "1".
  Differences:
  `actual`:   NA 
  `expected`: "1"
  
  ── Failure ('test-rdocx-lists.R:26:3'): reading lists ──────────────────────────
  Expected `xml_attr(li6, "val")` to equal "0".
  Differences:
  `actual`:   NA 
  `expected`: "0"
  
  ── Failure ('test-rdocx-lists.R:41:3'): reading lists ──────────────────────────
  Expected `xml_attr(stylelink, "val")` to equal "new-ul".
  Differences:
  `actual`:   NA      
  `expected`: "new-ul"
  
  ── Failure ('test-rdocx-lists.R:50:3'): reading lists ──────────────────────────
  Expected `xml_attr(stylelink, "val")` to equal "new-ol".
  Differences:
  `actual`:   NA      
  `expected`: "new-ol"
  
  
  [ FAIL 8 | WARN 0 | SKIP 3 | PASS 14 ]
  Error:
  ! Test failures.
  Execution halted

r-release-linux-x86_64

Running ‘testthat.R’ [9s/14s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > # This file is part of the standard setup for testthat.
  > # It is recommended that you do not modify it.
  > #
  > # Where should you do additional test configuration?
  > # Learn more about the roles of various files in:
  > # * https://r-pkgs.org/tests.html
  > # * https://testthat.r-lib.org/reference/test_package.html#special-files
  > 
  > library(testthat)
  > library(officedown)
  > 
  > test_check("officedown")
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-21.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-22.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-23.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-24.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-25.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-26.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-41.R
  Saving _problems/test-rdocx-lists-50.R
  [ FAIL 8 | WARN 0 | SKIP 3 | PASS 14 ]
  
  ══ Skipped tests (3) ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
  • On CRAN (1): 'test
...[truncated]...
─────────────────────────
  Expected `xml_attr(li4, "val")` to equal "2".
  Differences:
  `actual`:   NA 
  `expected`: "2"
  
  ── Failure ('test-rdocx-lists.R:25:3'): reading lists ──────────────────────────
  Expected `xml_attr(li5, "val")` to equal "1".
  Differences:
  `actual`:   NA 
  `expected`: "1"
  
  ── Failure ('test-rdocx-lists.R:26:3'): reading lists ──────────────────────────
  Expected `xml_attr(li6, "val")` to equal "0".
  Differences:
  `actual`:   NA 
  `expected`: "0"
  
  ── Failure ('test-rdocx-lists.R:41:3'): reading lists ──────────────────────────
  Expected `xml_attr(stylelink, "val")` to equal "new-ul".
  Differences:
  `actual`:   NA      
  `expected`: "new-ul"
  
  ── Failure ('test-rdocx-lists.R:50:3'): reading lists ──────────────────────────
  Expected `xml_attr(stylelink, "val")` to equal "new-ol".
  Differences:
  `actual`:   NA      
  `expected`: "new-ol"
  
  
  [ FAIL 8 | WARN 0 | SKIP 3 | PASS 14 ]
  Error:
  ! Test failures.
  Execution halted

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR10 OK, 3 ERRORNow
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-07-11

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OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.3

READMEYes · 600 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Using officedown HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

109.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,425 · ~301/day · ~9.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.9K30 days

18.5K90 days

109.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.6K r2u5 autocran2.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

davidgohel/officedown ↗Account: davidgohel

373Stars

27Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

188Commits

8Commit identities

188 commits · Last activity 2026-10-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Discussions: 22 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 62%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 59
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 7

Stars over time

2025-09-12 · 3712026-07-07 · 373

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/davidgohel/officedown on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-05-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-05-20, before release 0.4.3 (2026-10-15)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing officedown adds 57 packages (36 with compiled code, 47 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, fontLiberation 4.3 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (11)

grDevicesknitr memoise officer rlang rmarkdown rvgutilsuuid xml2 (>= 1.5.1)yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

bookdown flextable ggplot2 (>= 4.0.1)testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

TestAnaAPP D4TAlink.light unhcrdown

Suggests, most downloaded first

flextable accessr exmort PhysMove

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

David Gohel

Noam Ross

Author

rmarkdown implementation for rvg

Martin Camitz

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

ArData

Copyright holder

Institut für Qualitätssicherung und Transparenz im Gesundheitswesen

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-03
Total releases: 12 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 681 KB

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Gohel, D., ArData, Institut für Qualitätssicherung und Transparenz im Gesundheitswesen, Camitz, M., & Ross, N. (2026). officedown: Enhanced 'R Markdown' Format for 'Word' and 'PowerPoint' (Version 0.4.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.officedown

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for officedown version 0.4.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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